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...Republican hard right, so Bush lets his Vice President, Dan Quayle, champion the latest Star Wars brainstorm: "Brilliant Pebbles," an orbiting complex of miniaturized rockets that makes about as much sense as the name suggests. Since even the testing of space-based interceptors is prohibited by the ABM treaty and would therefore jeopardize Moscow's continued compliance with START, Brilliant Pebbles is more of a threat to arms control than to Soviet missiles...
SCHEVARDNADZE Admits Moscow Violated 1962 ABM Treaty, Denounces Moscow's 9 Year Involvement in War in Afghanistan...
...Czechoslovakian invasion would not recur. In addition, with a candor rare even in the West, Shevardnadze said of the controversial Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia: "Let's admit that this monstrosity the size of the Egyptian pyramid has been sitting there in direct violation of the ABM treaty." (His fealty to the treaty was in part motivated by a desire to drive a stake through America's SDI missile-defense program...
Shevardnadze said it took Gorbachev's government four years to determine that the location of the Krasnoyarsk radar station in Siberia violated the 1972 ABM treaty, as claimed repeatedly by the United States...
...said that as the Soviet Union tried to move forward on arms treaties based on the pact "there stood the station, the size of an Egyptian pyramid, representing, to put it bluntly, a violation of the ABM treaty...